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@ЦенительТЗ
3 жыл бұрын
A ...p
@cornelius6624
2 жыл бұрын
you link fucking biographies and not his books..? I have a feeling he wouldn't much like you
@Hhuhbvhjbhjb
Жыл бұрын
I live in Syracuse and my old apartment was his old apartment. It had quotes still written on the wall. People would show up wanting to visit the apartment, is how I was first introduced to him. Amazing guy
@Linalinalane
10 ай бұрын
Woah you’re so lucky
@andramatei2659
4 ай бұрын
May I ask, what quotes? Thank you
@funkymunky
4 жыл бұрын
"The more we are taught to list and resent the things that we were deprived of as children, the more we live in that anger and frustration, and the more we remain children."
@Aylon5D
4 жыл бұрын
I think that anger and frustration can be transformed or lifted if you dont just list and resent those things but learn, understand, accept and make peace with it.
@lauralowe5509
4 жыл бұрын
Aylon5D This is where the christian idea of forgiveness works well and allows people to move past their past
@Aylon5D
4 жыл бұрын
@@lauralowe5509 this is true but christian ideas and teachings sadly have been twisted and missused over the centurys. The loading towards guilt and sins have almost repressed the liberating qualitys of understanding and forgiveness. The later invention of the seven deadly sins for example - all those "sins" are consequences of unconcious but all too human behavior when in a condition lacking of love and acceptance. To punish these "sins" with guilt instead of healing them with understanding and forgiveness is a form of domestication and supression and goes against those wise initial teachings. Thats why christianity, concidering its history, is a very double edged sword for me in terms of its ideological transformations throughout its history. Thats why people have to learn and relearn to feel and think for themselfes to make this a better place. Because truth/love/god speaks through the individual heart not just through one set of institutionalised beliefs. At least thats what i believe :)
@sophiesf5893
4 жыл бұрын
That's why the actual (healthy) wounded child thing is about acknowledging how you were hurt in your past, as an infant, so you can forgive your parents for not knowing any better and then taje actual responsibility in your life to stop repeating the harmful patterns you unconsciously inherited from them and make of life what you want it to be.
@funkymunky
4 жыл бұрын
@@sophiesf5893 Absolutely. The cycle of abuse and trauma ends with ourselves.
@jonathangimpel2345
4 жыл бұрын
Miss him so much. We could use his mind, compassion, and insight so much in 2020.
@tishgrier
4 жыл бұрын
this is so true. It would be great to hear him take on Trumpism. He would have seen it coming a mile away.
@admashburn2543
4 жыл бұрын
This is a spot on comment. Interestingly, I’d be willing to bet that after listening to this clip, both sides of our current divide would claim that Wallace would fall on their side.
@pod9363
2 жыл бұрын
@@admashburn2543 he was very big on individualism so Im guessing he’s fall somewhere south on the political quadrants.
@CraigStCyrPlus
10 ай бұрын
Stop that. He killed the ability for anybody to feel bad for him when he offed himself like a coward.
@slowfuse
10 ай бұрын
he already killed himself, there is no way he would have survived through 2020
@timsopinion
4 жыл бұрын
This was in 2003, and he was more eloquent than many of the voices we have trying to sort this all out in the present. He was lucid about an issue and topic that has such absolute and utter relevance today. Amazing insight.
@fivesidedpolygon
4 жыл бұрын
timsopinion DFW was a gifted writer and captured a moment in history. To claim, however, that positive political & social change will come from individuals rather than from organizing mass movement is an incredibly naive solipsism and a typically western one. Capitalism as it currently exists reacts & adapts too quickly to the conscientious consumer and couldn’t care any less about the non-participant. If DFW published today he would be utterly ignored.
@beingsshepherd
4 жыл бұрын
@@fivesidedpolygon A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The economy has been in a wretched state since DFW's death ...
@timsopinion
4 жыл бұрын
@@fivesidedpolygon In my interpretation, I think he's talking a lot more about taking care of our own hearts, minds, and souls on a completely individual level. In his writing he seems like he was trying to unpack how to come to terms with the world we live in and survive within it, often trying out different strategies in his own life attempting to cope with societal forces larger than he. But that's just my take.
@jmkix29
4 жыл бұрын
That’s probably why he Epsteined himself
@01107345
3 жыл бұрын
@@fivesidedpolygon no more ignored than when he was alive.
@NadyaPena-01
2 жыл бұрын
This resonates with me so much. It's 2021 and things have only gotten noisier, faster, busier. I'm just about ready to fall off the bus. I want peace and quiet. I miss those early adolescent days when life was so slow I could spend a whole weekend reading a book cover to cover. I miss that. This man speaks brilliance.
@skiphoffenflaven8004
Жыл бұрын
He really does.
@tober0432
Жыл бұрын
I'm amazed how relevant his ideas are to our current time. His knowledge of American culture is up there with James Baldwin and Joan Didion.
@sage1682
Жыл бұрын
I saw a car once when I was a kid, now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry
@MeadeFatLoss
Жыл бұрын
Mostly nonsense
@imarobot2415
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I really miss the pre-internet era where building a frienship or a relationship took weeks or months. Instead of a match created by an algorithm on tinder.
@dondreytaylor8001
4 жыл бұрын
He's spot on with explaining the American experience of consumerism and lack of wanting to be alone and do the work of citizenship. Goodness, so sad about his passing.
@dondreytaylor8001
4 жыл бұрын
@Jon L Well said and that's awesome! Society loves to impose their vision of everything on you and when you finally find it in you to say "fuck it" I'm living life the way I want to- is the day you really start living your life in my opinion. I couldn't agree more with what you said about choosing and loving your freedom over what other people think about you- it's extremely liberating. And I share that hope with you- self-care and well-being are so critical to clear mind.
@Cracktune
Жыл бұрын
what an individual
@ledaswan5990
Жыл бұрын
@@KL0098Who would be a greater thinker in your opinion?
@phasespace4700
Жыл бұрын
@@KL0098 Every time DFW starts talking, I cringe. The guy truly had nothing to say that we hadn't learned by the time we were 10. His writing is pretentious, shallow, tiresome and unfunny. Currently reading Javier Marias. DFW's best sentence couldn't touch a single sentence of Marias. Or Pessoa. Or Nabokov. Or Sebald. Or Bruno Schultz. Or Robert Walser. Or Thomas Bernhard.
@phasespace4700
Жыл бұрын
@@ledaswan5990 Kid Rock.
@westsideted1434
4 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that she is not interrupting him. Nowadays it would be all "So you are saying" etc. etc.
@devonboyer944
4 жыл бұрын
"well, ACKSHUALLYYYYY"
@nicelypenn
4 жыл бұрын
The power and frequency of perspective and agenda. No room for honesty.
@slimschwede5113
4 жыл бұрын
Would love to see him on rogan though
@_..-.._..-.._
11 ай бұрын
“I’m not sure America is the freedom capital of the world” _”so you’re saying you want the country to burn?”_ -current media
@QuidamByMoonlight
3 жыл бұрын
This poor man: “90% of this going to be cut out, right?” He’s expecting ridicule it seems... So brilliant and also so self-effacing. You can tell he’s a gentle soul.
@christopherbrunton
3 жыл бұрын
intelligent, yes. but he was hardly gentle.
@LucasNauan
3 жыл бұрын
@@christopherbrunton A soul sensible enough to realize and write what he did is certainly a gentle soul. Maybe not always in practice, but he absolutely had that depth.
@SethMacLeod95
3 жыл бұрын
Speaking truth is never popular. Once you see the truth you can’t help but not talk
@larochejaquelein3680
2 жыл бұрын
@@christopherbrunton He treated his love very harshly, he was cruel to her without a doubt. But let us not forget his major depression disorder. This sickness turned David into a monster without a soul, and I am confident that David had been a good person before the sickness took control of his mind
@MeadeFatLoss
Жыл бұрын
@@SethMacLeod95what truth ?
@jeffgonis8975
4 жыл бұрын
at 8:08 "I've started having this thing where I've become convinced there's something really good on another channel and I'm missing it...My sick little head that thinks that there's always something a little better on the next..." DFW describing FOMO back in the early 2000's. A man ahead of his time.
@redshift1976
4 жыл бұрын
@@ChaoticTrack Zeitgeist
@terfaniabdou5908
3 жыл бұрын
I love DFW but FOMO isn't a new feeling or emotional state, maybe the wording is new, I don't know but still a thoughtful person from the 19th century could describe it..
@tobiasthiel5291
4 жыл бұрын
It's funny. I've watched bits of this interview time and again and I've watched the interview in full multiple times, here on youtube. And I (ironically) keep stumbling upon it during binge-watching sessions on youtube. And each time it makes me become aware of how I am being trapped in that state he describes (at the example of TV) where I can't stop consuming entertainment and where I keep myself from quieter, slower things that are more meaningful.
@alexislarge
3 жыл бұрын
This is me! Rediscovering a DFW video always shocks me back into awareness of the problem for a brief time, before being pulled back in :(
@Yewerd
10 ай бұрын
20 years later and this is still relevant
@daviddoch4872
5 жыл бұрын
Sincerity and ultra self consciousness leads to a hyper sensitivity. From there you enter vulnerability and then depression. Seeking away from self, to get out of oneself. The only way out is community. The interests of others becomes ur only path.
@nak6608
4 жыл бұрын
The correlation between self consciousness and hypersensitivity is an awesome insight I haven't thought of before. It makes sense. However, there is no one path. That's fucking bullshit and don't ever let yourself believe that nonsense. Our minds are very complicated and can experience many sensations to varying degrees simultaneously. You can be vulnerable and confident. You can be sensitive and happy.
@waswaswad
4 жыл бұрын
@@nak6608 and the one path certainly isn't '' the interests of others become ur only path''.
@jonathanreave8558
4 жыл бұрын
You are full of sense David Doch. I hope you find community, or better, community finds you.
@beingsshepherd
4 жыл бұрын
That reads like a fortune cookie written by Mark Zuckerberg.
@paulrichardeden
4 жыл бұрын
So lets all be insincere and lacking in self-conciousness for a better world? Listen to DFW instead,
@slowfuse
10 ай бұрын
Never heard him talk, crazy to be a good writer, but also to be able to speak like that.
@paulrichardeden
4 жыл бұрын
A prophet. He saw with a huge clarity what was going on, His glitchy unconvinced sincerity just adds to it,
@pod9363
3 жыл бұрын
“Glitchy unconvinced sincerity” I love that.
@shrodingerscat4191
3 жыл бұрын
The Glitchy, was a grift. He was an "intellectual" with nothing real to say
@shrodingerscat4191
2 жыл бұрын
@@Edlouis564 I like to dip my foot in the New York Elite silliness now and then. Keeps me grounded and wanting to keep self awareness.
@shrodingerscat4191
2 жыл бұрын
@@Edlouis564 Heartland? Wow, you really are a sloppy elitist for that comment. I'm Canadian. Love dippin my foot in all the nothingness pretending to be interesting. Have a self awareness day!
@Ozrictentacles87
2 жыл бұрын
What do you have to offer? This man will be more a gift than you ever will
@Synochra
2 жыл бұрын
From a German perspective in 2021, this entire video rings so true today in this country.
@scottash351
4 жыл бұрын
I find it sad and a little scary how much I agree and understand this man. Being hyper sensitive to the corruption of our culture through tv and the Internet leaves one very out of step with almost everyone around me. I can understand why he took his own life. May peace be upon you David.
@arsokhan1
4 жыл бұрын
I understand you
@jonnypopovich8761
4 жыл бұрын
oh, what a terrible burden your superlative observations must be. your genius not only leaves you to wander alone, unable to connect with the SmoothBrains, but also allows you perfect insight and communion with the soul of one David Foster Wallace. what an enviable, lucky person you are.
@gunsofaugust1971
4 жыл бұрын
@@jonnypopovich8761 Take it easy Jonny, we are all fans here.
@Earthad23
Жыл бұрын
Don’t let the mob deter you
@weston.weston
10 ай бұрын
So ahead of his time, I miss him very much.
@juliovillagran4105
2 жыл бұрын
I liked it when he said: 'appealing to the part of you that always wants to have fun is the best way to sell you things' that's the advertising industry.
@lukecasio9810
Жыл бұрын
Damn I knew rewatching this clip was gonna bum me out but I also knew I needed to hear it again. He called it all
@informalliteraryexperiments
Жыл бұрын
It's an important video, I'm glad that it is on here for everyone to watch and has so many views.
@Larissa-mi9ut
4 жыл бұрын
What an amazing person he was; an intelligent, conflicted, amazing person. I would have liked to have known him.
@NickCasioppo-l5e
Жыл бұрын
Totally incredible. This author speaks as if he is taking thoughts out of my own brain. I have such depression and anxiety from living in this world, and I have had such a hard time explaining it to my wife and my mother and other people in my life and this sums it up right here. I can’t get this shit out of my brain, I wish I could because I obviously can’t affect it, so why would I worry about it but it worries me.
@molley5175
2 жыл бұрын
I just learnt about him while taking a college course in writing, Beautiful mind and I wish he were still here
@tomspaghetti
4 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for helping to immortalize this gifted mind.
@sizz604
8 ай бұрын
Its crazy how spot on he is in this interview about the state of the world today...im gonna have to pick up his book
@marygeorge2467
3 жыл бұрын
At 7:35. . . . breathtaking. I put one foot forward, raise an arm, twirl a hand and bow to you, sir, at the beautiful cadence of that lovely thought.
@j92so
Жыл бұрын
Grateful for this video being online. Wish we still had him.
@slartybartfast1112
Жыл бұрын
“What would be the situation with our children?” As a guy in my mid-30s I can say I didn’t act like an adult until I was 25. Even after that I still made dumb choices and did what I wanted rather than what was disciplined and necessary. I’m still not the most mature or “grownup” at times. But people my age constantly use the word Adulting ironically and as a negative to bemoan the necessities of responsibility to our families, colleagues and ourselves.
@samarthsingh8735
2 жыл бұрын
This man is just so dead-on, it’s like through all the self help and the philosophy I’ve been yearning for this sort of clarity that brings you back to what’s always beeen right under your nose
@j4yoyo
Жыл бұрын
i love this man so so much. his smile makes me want to live. and he is so sincere and kind and generous.
@devil_pls
Жыл бұрын
Same. Its funny how you can miss someone that one has never even met. He was probably one of the most unique individuals of all time. He speaks the things out loud I'v always thought about but never knew the words to accurately express it.
@cadenceenglish
Жыл бұрын
❤️
@owenwilberforce6138
3 жыл бұрын
When Tom Waits sang “I don’t want to grow up” it spoke to the difficulty of doing the dry boring work of paying bills, voting and being responsible. Yet, I believe those of us born in the 60’s and raised by tv in the 70’s definitely feel now that we can’t forfeit the need to face the less “fun” aspects of adulting. The idea of hoping and expecting the older leaders to always think and act in our best interests is an assumption risky to make. Wallace clearly understood we had been soothed and charmed by tv and we have to see past it. Now, Social Media and apps really have the popular attention, and we are challenged to put the phone down for more than a day. It begs the question, who is paying attention to how we are paying attention? As always, someone with a vested interest in the financial rewards of analytics.
@JasonRoggasch
3 жыл бұрын
This is what GENIUS IS..
@harryathornton4463
Жыл бұрын
My first ever experience with DFW, and i'm definitely looking into more of his work, thank you. Additionally, I love how the interviewer's questions have been cut out - it sounds like DFW can see into the near-future and keeps interrupting them before they can get a word out!
@informalliteraryexperiments
Жыл бұрын
Congrats on stumbling across a truly interesting mind!
@321erup123
Жыл бұрын
I find it fascinating he was so concerned with TV but it's all still valid (and probably worse) because it's in our pocket now.
@informalliteraryexperiments
Жыл бұрын
The anxiety of infinite choice.
@mayaeidolon5623
4 жыл бұрын
I felt so called out when he said he felt ashamed for talking about citizenship because I knew it was true to me, but I was still listening to that voice that was making fun of the concept lol
@Aylon5D
4 жыл бұрын
I think its a healthy attitude to make fun of most concepts. A good amount of suffering initially comes from taking them too serious and attach yourself to some stiff concepts.
@mayaeidolon5623
4 жыл бұрын
@@Aylon5D this is true! It's so easy to have your worldview get more and more rigid without realizing it because you can't have fun with your own beliefs. That said I think it's important to make a distinction between your inner critic making fun of things, and the part of you that feels genuine joy making fun of things
@bringyourownsnake980
Жыл бұрын
We are not replacing the interesting people that have left us.
@Digitally-Cirkumzysed
5 жыл бұрын
thank you for sharing the footage. i admire how honest David seems to have been, at least regarding personal feelings.
@AdrianTechWizard
11 ай бұрын
This is an amazing description of some of the problems with modernity.
@itsatrap9522
2 жыл бұрын
It's scary how accurate and prophetic he was... especially in regard to how our culture has become all about instant gratification and will not even touch books, movies, shows, or art that demands effort from the viewer/audience to truly appreciate.
@rainbowrotcod
Жыл бұрын
bc of internet addiction I have become less patient over time and it's really stressing me out . at a turning point in my life realizing I need to be more productive with how I use my time. and working on myself. so much pain
@betta_lic
Жыл бұрын
I needed to listen to this so much. What an inspiring person. Thank you.
@westandeast1024
4 жыл бұрын
Such an intelligent and sensitive young man. So sad his life ended in suicide.
@BanditGaming479
4 жыл бұрын
westandeast1024 ironic
@theheartofablackbird2109
4 жыл бұрын
Or is it? I'm thinking he's in a better place...
@fakename965
4 жыл бұрын
I think he made the right choice. The things he complains about have gotten exponentially worse.
@tonychavez4056
4 жыл бұрын
Suicide...a right, privilege, or insane thought?
@Pooles1738
4 жыл бұрын
Tony Chavez I consider it a right. But in some circumstances, it’s not possible, so it’s sometimes a privilege. But in most cases I think it’s irrational and had the soul of the person been able to “see” the aftermath, assuming the suffering is over and can “think” clearly, they would regret there choice.
@VB-qk7cd
4 жыл бұрын
The man is a genius, even almost 20 years later this stuff is as, if not even more relevant, than back then. For example, at 8:08 he is describing pretty much the same thing that dating apps like tinder do to your head
@T_Dot94
Жыл бұрын
This guys was right about everything
@mynameislove7605
5 жыл бұрын
This man was a genius
@phasespace4700
Жыл бұрын
@@Sh0n0 and Pauli Shore. In fact, everyone is a genius.
@Sh0n0
Жыл бұрын
@@phasespace4700 i dont know who pauli shore is but ill take your word for it
@karimzarka489
Жыл бұрын
Listening to this interview he is clearly not a deep thinker, everything he says are simple facts
@danielkinsey5735
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this
@Dan-ry4gj
4 жыл бұрын
This man needs a hug. Needed a hug. More importantly needed someone who asks how he's doing.
@svenylford4047
Жыл бұрын
Yes, because that cures depression.
@stephenbaka
Жыл бұрын
I saw this David...20 years later
@philipmorise7970
4 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to watch every video on KZitem that this guy speaks in!
@Darkneo7
4 жыл бұрын
Look for his water speech
@thecastle09
4 жыл бұрын
omg hes so on point.....wow........
@crogomu5858
4 жыл бұрын
More pertinent than ever. Thank you for uploading.
@dgRrain
5 жыл бұрын
We have hope guys.
@beingsshepherd
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the national debt clock.
@kate9341
4 ай бұрын
Bob Hope
@FranzVex
10 ай бұрын
this made me feel so much more at ease somehow
@adamh9579
11 ай бұрын
DFW is a truly fascinating guy to listen to, but its even more interesting to listen to what he hints at, as well as do not say but is felt within him.
@dr.buzzvonjellar8862
11 ай бұрын
This guy was almost too intelligent. Understanding reality this well, and the evolving culture in America, had to be overwhelming. He’s describing everything accurately
@basialaufman6365
2 жыл бұрын
Very good, and I miss him too
@lapecoraneradellafamiglia
8 ай бұрын
8:08 He was saying it before KZitem. Wow!
@daviddoch4872
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this.
@jtrealfunny
7 ай бұрын
He's so astute and given how things played out, so tragically invested. I would love to hear him speak about Marshall Mcluhan because I feel like McLuhan had the same high level of insight into how modern culture destroys us but he didn't let it destroy HIM.
@_dreamscape
Жыл бұрын
I wish I could have met him even once
@mini_worx
4 жыл бұрын
"90% of this is going to be cut out?" 🙂🙂🙂 Miss him!
@el6178
4 жыл бұрын
He predicated so many things..
@michaelmontano1
4 жыл бұрын
jesus he nails this like a hammer. Wish he was here now.
@powerplantproductions2987
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant man
@mosesjohansen2608
Жыл бұрын
This guy wouldve been awesome to have as a friend
@nw82534
4 жыл бұрын
Profound, if not prophetic. We lost something as a species when we lost DFW.
@jatochjasper
Жыл бұрын
This is good!
@theeskatelife
Жыл бұрын
@8:29 I find that this is happening a lot with online dating and app dating. People always think something is better than what they have, that the next person they go on a date with will be better than he previous one and so they are constantly searching for the next best thing
@guzgrant
10 ай бұрын
He’s so right about solitude and silence . The antidote to loneliness is aloneness .
@brianjoyce9040
4 жыл бұрын
Just one man’s perspective, however flawed, that spoke much truth. DFW will be remembered by just those that didn’t just watch, but researched, cared and tried to make a difference.
@beingsshepherd
4 жыл бұрын
oO(Why are such people in the past tense?)
@BigDome1
Жыл бұрын
I don't think even he knew how bad things would be by now.
@j946atFIVEFOUR88AA
3 жыл бұрын
netflix and youtube would have driven him crazy
@Thurnishaley6969
Жыл бұрын
Tiktok is the epitome of our endless need to be distracted from our own thoughts
@한결-z8x
Жыл бұрын
@Thurnishaley6969 I'm scared of the next tik tok, youtube,twitter .it'll be worse.
@MFJoneser
11 ай бұрын
rip brotha. you are so loved
@KarlMaldensNose
Жыл бұрын
"Some of the political and social corrections that I thought should be brought about would happen when there was some sort of cataclysm or misfortune where we weren't as comfortable anymore..." Damn. So, so smart.
@brianmuldoon1835
Жыл бұрын
“When you had to just move your thumb to change it. That’s when we were screwed”
@shelbybrown8312
4 жыл бұрын
When I hear him talk it's like compartmentalization working in unison
@tchrisou812
4 жыл бұрын
Like looking at a Picasso painting?
@queeniez1970
4 жыл бұрын
What do you mean? Do you mean fast changes in how he expresses his emotions?
@christiandoyle7783
4 жыл бұрын
If the compartmentalization works in unison, it would probably be the synthesis of ideas, right? You can see him putting the puzzle of his own mind together.
@jonhon
10 ай бұрын
8:15 He's describing the endless scroll that all social media (KZitem included) use to get everyone's monkey brain interested in what could come up next. I'm watching him talk about what I'm currently doing searching through yt videos.
@scuffednews7413
3 жыл бұрын
fantastic
@matty6878
11 ай бұрын
i love how this is edited. it makes it sound like he had something to really say but as the interviewer is about to speak he cuts her off 'cause he isnt finished yet!
@chickennuggetscoon6900
3 жыл бұрын
I can't believe he's been gone for 13 years. Damn.
@skiphoffenflaven8004
Жыл бұрын
I have witnessed a crushing amount of previously reader friends and colleagues that say and do exactly what he mentions. The constant barrage of junk on streaming Disney, Hulu, AP, and Netflix services has wiped out silence and useful thought.
@scooter2163
11 ай бұрын
Only the nonsubscribers are spared. I've never felt better about not being in the loop!
@VlogSmiths
3 жыл бұрын
He really spilt the tea at during minute 3
@KarlMaldensNose
Жыл бұрын
"When you just had to move your thumb to change it... that's when we were screwed." Talking about tv channels. Oh, little did he know...
@joehuffman7410
11 ай бұрын
Soon our minds will be fully connected with the things that bring us pleasure. Our thumbs will no longer be an inconvenient, time consuming, medium used for transferring thoughts. We will become slaves to our own impulses and emotions. Savages. The only thing that can reverse this is a cataclysmic event as DFW stated. Something which will correct our sense of want and need. Nothing better than desperately trying to survive to center your natural self.
@KarlMaldensNose
10 ай бұрын
@@joehuffman7410 That does seem to be where things are headed. I'd argue that our thumbs aren't proving to be inconvenient enough and that we (at least those addicted to tech) are already slaves to our own impulses and emotions. Frightening.
@josephsellers5978
11 ай бұрын
Being a good citizen is immature thinking in and of itself because it implies you will never be mature enough to justly govern yourself, and will always need big brother to watch over and make decisions for you. Not only do you remain child like and immature, but those that you put over you are as well, but to them you are lesser than. It doesn't matter how informed you are in the matter, you still choose this bs. Knowledge is one thing anyone can get, understanding only happens in maturity. I understand that if I am to ever be governed justly, I am the only one that I can put in charge to do so.
@Elwood_McCable
Жыл бұрын
The sort of clarity you find swaying in the back porch breeze.
@grahamclews1571
4 жыл бұрын
DFW was so insightful.. wish he was still around
@Jmr2332
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I had friends like DFW.
@davesv123
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in an education system that DFW believes needs to be better in 2003, but teach in a now 2020 state of utter pandering to parents wants rather than actual intellectualization of the youth. Critical thinking has been left behind in American education towards something more to the feelings of the youth rather than the needs of the youth. As John Meachem recently said there is an America of feelings rather than reason.
@russellpointer4731
5 жыл бұрын
"Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?" William Shakespeare
@rools2roolsproject325
4 жыл бұрын
Well, yes. Self refflection is an ever increasing difficult thing to do. Nothing is stale. Believes, social comfort... Religions followed zodiacal signs for thousands of years up to the fish... (Enter the house of...) Meso Americans had the snake above the doorways representing the wobbling of the solar system against the galaxy (milky way) the more we understand the less we know. Maybe we are going the wrong way. We change our DNA as we go. We get bitterness because it was originally a warning against poisonous plants but we embrace it today in delicate meals, nothing is written and all is ever changing. The madelaines were also a warning.
@NASkeywest
4 жыл бұрын
Human Comforts have killed the Human Spirit. "In the last days man will worship idols and things made with their own hands."
@spikeep6141
4 жыл бұрын
“The more we are taught to list and resent all the things that we were deprived-of as children, the more we live in that anger and frustration, and the more we REMAIN children.” Maybe So - However, I inhabit A World where, at any time, I can put on a pair of glasses, and Power Girl will make love to me : *The Future is Not So Bad.*
@Claire-hr3qp
Жыл бұрын
Wow
@Major42
Жыл бұрын
He is so human ❤
@myroc1
Жыл бұрын
I feel like most would agree that if you had a bad childhood you need to reparent yourself, but for some reaons people also think your inner parent is best when ignoring the inner child. They just cant handle their own inner child. Then they have children and model/enforce this. That's the cycle that needs breaking.
@samaraisnt
4 жыл бұрын
Would love to know how this was translated into German and whether it made any sense at all, or if it did, if the meaning changed completely. Such as the felt existential dread, etc.
@BicycleFunk
Жыл бұрын
8:17 - I have this exact thing with yt. My watch later playlist can get scary sometimes
@conorobrien1025
3 жыл бұрын
I used to do the thing he's talking about in the middle there about TV, except I do it with the radio. I'll find a song I like but I'm convinced there's a song I like more elsewhere so I'll scan or sometimes I'll scan with an internal timer knowing I have like :20 to scan before my favourite part of the song hits and I need to be back for that. For passengers it's unbearable so I never DJ if somebody else is in the car
@chocoflavoredcookies5649
3 жыл бұрын
so true king!
@TerlinguaTalkeetna
10 ай бұрын
Being a good citizen is not the same as buying and consuming manufactured entertainment/sports or buying tons of qlittering sh*t from your computer. David thought deeply and tried to express and explain in simple language/words, out loud what so many of us felt about a simple question. Why are things the way they are?
@monogalaxia
10 ай бұрын
Sometimes is exhausting how self-deprecating DFW was
@avidplanes
Жыл бұрын
You can tell the depression was really starting to hit hard around this you can hear it in the voice
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